Currently being the only reader and the first reviewer of this book is thrilling! Alright, let's start.
So, this book is literally a conspiracy theory itself.
Silas Orven is a man, a supposed time-traveller, who appeared in a private Facebook group in about 2024-2025 if I remember correctly. In that group he claimed that he came from the future to try and edit the timeline because humanity in his era of the future is having massive problems. If you can "edit" the timeline, it creates a new variable. Our current actions, if they are different, can create a new result and new future timeline. At first, people mocked him, trolled him, dismissed him completely. But when he began accurately predicting specific events, people were stunned and began taking him far more seriously. Some even started idolizing him and treating him like some kind of divine figure, even though he repeatedly said he wasn’t a prophet or anything divine and that no one should worship him. The guy became a sensation, basically.
So in 2025 he published this book and then completely disappeared. No one knows where he is. No one can identify him. His name doesn’t even show up in any global database. Some of his most devoted followers genuinely believe he went back to the future, where he came from.
I read the book, and it’s incredibly well-written. Some parts are genuinely disturbing; his descriptions of the future and the era he comes from are pretty terrifying. It's pretty dystopian. It’s impressive how he explains how time travel supposedly works, and he even touches on several taboo topics like Hitler, aliens and their origins, why they abduct humans, as well as God, the Bible, the Qur’an, who built the pyramids and why, whether humans will achieve eternal life, what happens after death, and so
As I have read this book in English and in the UK I think I better write a rewiew in English.
The book won a Nero Book Award and was longlisted for Booker Prize.
The book was just how I expected it to be. It was kind of sentimental and to be frank it was a bit heartbreaking.
Thomas lives with his mother who has a complete control over him. He doesn't know his father. Pop grows him up he is dead now like his father.
One day a man shows up who claims to be a renowned director and offers him a job. But in the end everything turns out to be a kind of disaster.
I adored this book.
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1. "Чем люди живы" (What Men Live By) by Leo Tolstoy
This short story revolves around Simon, a poor shoemaker, who encounters a mysterious stranger, Michael, outside a church. Simon takes Michael home, showing compassion despite his own poverty. Over time, Michael reveals himself as an angel sent to learn three lessons: what dwells in man, what is not given to man, and what men live by. Through human experiences of love, suffering, and kindness, Michael realizes the answers: love dwells in man, man is not given knowledge of his own needs, and men live by love. After fulfilling his task, Michael ascends back to heaven.
Tolstoy emphasizes Christian virtues such as love, compassion, and humility. The story critiques materialism and underscores spiritual wealth over worldly possessions. The transformative power of human kindness is central, presenting love as the ultimate force that sustains humanity.
2. "Упустишь огонь – не потушишь свечка" (Neglect the Fire – You Can’t Put Out the Candle) by Leo Tolstoy
This parable warns about the consequences of neglecting one’s moral duties or small transgressions. The metaphor of fire represents sin or destructive behavior, while the candle signifies a seemingly minor problem that can grow uncontrollably if ignored.
Tolstoy uses a simple yet powerful analogy to convey a moral lesson about vigilance and responsibility. The story reflects his belief in self-discipline and attentiveness to the moral and spiritual aspects of life. It encourages readers to address issues early rather than letting them escalate.
3. "Девчонки умнее стариков" / "Little Girls Wiser Than Men" by Leo Tolstoy
Two little girls, Akulya and Malasha, play near a puddle during Easter. Despite cautioning each other, Malasha accidentally splashes water onto
From the very first time that I read and listen to Gilbert’s book, I suddenly made a connection and felt like I need to get enough of its idea. I loved her catches about creativity I even wrote some of them down in my journal to think about more and share with my friends. For example one of her chapter she says ‘the universe buries strange jewels deep within us all and then stands back to see if we can find them. The hunt to uncover those jewels- that is creative life’ I am amazed by the deep meaning and logic behind that detection and she bought me! Most of the things she talked about later on were so interesting and inspiring to me. I can say that she is so relatable to me . Her determination through the idea of being a writer was completely fun and exciting to read with her simple understandable expression. In addition, I liked how she put the name Big Magic to her book in terms of creative genre because her belief about the creative process is that this process is already exists in our mind waits there to be explored. And for the weakness of the book, we can say she needed to use more creative ideas for the cover. I liked her way of delivering and most of her ideas. But on the other hand to be honest I found some of her ideas ridiculous too like she claims that some of the ideas can be transmitted to our friends via kissing. I can agree with the idea that the creative process is some kind of magic and we should focus on ourselves more to explore our valuable ideas but I do not think creative ideas are not this supernatural.
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Amazing book for people interested in Indian religions and enlightenment. The novel is structured on three of the traditional stages of life for Hindu males (student (brahmacharin), householder (grihastha) and recluse/renunciate (vanaprastha)) as well as the Buddha's four noble truths (Part One) and eight-fold path (Part Two) which form twelve chapters, the number in the novel.
Siddhartha is a novel by Hermann Hesse that deals with the spiritual journey of self-discovery of a man named Siddhartha during the time of the Gautama Buddha. The word Siddhartha is made up of two words in Sanskrit language, siddha (achieved) + artha (what was searched for), which together means "he who has found meaning (of existence)" or "he who has attained his goals". In fact, the Buddha's own name, before his renunciation, was Siddhartha Gautama, Prince of Kapilavastu. In this book, the Buddha is referred to as "Gotama"
Actually, I've read this book thinking the main character was Buddha. But it's not.
"He argues that the individual seeks an absolutely unique, personal meaning that cannot be presented to him by a teacher." he doesn't join Buddha, but his best friend Govinda does.
It's basically about a man going away from his family, from his Brahman father, and is trying to understand the meaning of life, who is trying to become enlightened to escape Samsara (the concept of rebirth and "cyclicality of all life, matter, existence", a fundamental belief of most Indian religions. In short, it is the cycle of death and rebirth.) he tries everything, first fasts, becomes homeless, renounces all personal possessions, and intensely meditates, but it doesn't work. Then he does everything he
This was a tough read. If you care about women, it makes you want to cry out for them. A friend of mine from Ireland lent me his copy of this book and the first question I asked him was, was it good? He said, yes, and it is definitely thought-provoking. As soon as I finished reading another book for a book club, I picked this one up and finished it in four days. I literally could not put the book down. It is very well-written and tells a story of a man and his family in Afghanistan just after 9/11, during the Taliban times and after the fall of the Taliban. She claims she wrote it in a novel form based on true stories of what she heard told to her while living in Afghanistan. It definitely read as a novel, but I knew that it wasn't fiction from my experiences. I also knew that it's a very small representation of what goes on in Afghanistan in those areas as it is just one man and his family's story. It is also not a very flattering picture of that man's life and as for accuracy, I am assuming that it is accurate for that family, but not necessarily accurate for the entire society as a whole.
Sultan Khan is an educated man who loves his books more than anything in the world and he has high dreams of printing books and selling them to everyone. He is also the head of his family, one of thirteen children. His mother, three younger sisters, two wives, children all live with him in a tiny flat that used to be in middle class district of Kabul before it was destroyed by the Taliban and the bookseller, Sultan Khan, is a canny and shrewd business man, as well as a devout Muslim, who despite his love of books, seems to have learned little from the knowledge at his fingertips. He rules the roost like a patriarchal despot with a decidedly strict view of the role of women. In
